Images from the new terminator

[Zoid]

I think someone needs to read up on their stuctural engineering. Catastophically damaged burned out buildings of that type would not be standing like that.

It's teh futurez. Maybe nano-carbon building material looks like that when hit by sentient machine fire...

[Wiglaf]

Anyone who liked this movie should get their balls licked off. This was a disaster not seen since the Star Wars remakes. Can anyone tell me how to erase my memory of having seen it. I know MIB had those laser lights but no laser can wipe your short term memory. I tried google but everything there is clearly a prank. Like one guy suggested jacking off?

[Asher]

Christian Bale forced a script re-write to make him the main character. It sucks.

[Wiglaf]

That sounds made up to me. Let's just face facts: him being the main character isn't what made it bad. The plot holes and the ****ty dialogue and the ****ty everything made it bad, just bend over already.

[Alinestra Covelia]

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[Wiglaf]

Must have a lot of dicks in your mouth.

[Asher]

That sounds made up to me. Let's just face facts: him being the main character isn't what made it bad. The plot holes and the ****ty dialogue and the ****ty everything made it bad, just bend over already.

The reason why the plot was bad and the dialog, etc was so ****ty was because it was quickly written to appease Bale.

http://www.movieweb.com/news/NE88ZfcgxZs7bb

McG and Christian Bale Had to Rewrite Terminator Salvation

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Christian Bale, who director McG had to convince to be in Terminator Salvation, ended up having to work with the director to rewrite the screenplay in order to accommodate the actor's burgeoning stardom.

Initially, McG wanted Bale to the play the role of Marcus Wright in the film. However Bale wanted to play the role of John Connor who had been a central character in the other Terminator movies. In the original drafts of Terminator Salvation Connor's role was smaller.

The director reports that he and Bale "worked day and night" to rewrite the screenplay with Bale.

"A lot of the work was integrating (Connor) into scenes ... and having that feel integral and sensible, as opposed to grafted on just because there was a star in the part," stated John Brancato, the Terminator Salvation screenwriter.

Initially the character of Marcus Wright (played in the film by Sam Worthington) was an executed man who lends his body to science, and comes back to life when machines take over the world.

In the current film, both Wright and Connor get equal time on screen.

[Asher]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i4b5caa365ad73b3a1f8f9746cb475ff4

McG: Bale took toll on 'Terminator'
Director says actor's stardom factored into rewrites

Reuters

May 9, 2009, 12:31 PM ET
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British actor Christian Bale forced a rewrite of upcoming action movie "Terminator Salvation," because his star had grown too big for the small role of John Connor he chose, the filmmakers said on Friday.

Director McG, whose real name is Joseph McGinty Nichol, said he had the disconcerting experience of going to England to convince Bale to play central character Marcus Wright in the man vs. machines film, only to have Bale tell the director he wanted to play Connor instead.

McG told reporters that the script was a "moving target" that became a filmmaking challenge, and that he worked day and night with Bale, who starred last year in box office smash "The Dark Knight," talking about how to work Connor into the movie.

Connor is an iconic character in the film franchise that began in 1984 with "The Terminator," but his role was originally small in the series' fourth movie, "Terminator Salvation," which debuts in theaters on May 21.

"A lot of the work was integrating (Connor) into scenes ... and having that feel integral and sensible, as opposed to grafted on just because there was a star in the part," John Brancato, a screenwriter on the film, told reporters.

He said originally the main character was Marcus Wright, an executed death row inmate who donates his body to science, and re-emerges alive after machines have taken over the world by unleashing a nuclear holocaust on mankind. In the movie, Connor and Wright become equally important characters.

Wright is played by Australian actor Sam Worthington.

Bale said that he asked to be consulted about who would play Worthington opposite him.

"There's a benefit of currently a lot of people in the States not being familiar with him, and so you can really enjoy that performance that much more," Bale said. "He's got so many movies that are going to be coming out, because many other people have realized that he's bloody good."

[Wiglaf]

You don't get it. Even if they have to rewrite it around Bale, it still sucked. The robots apparently use human operating systems that have USB drives for some reason. The gay Michael Ironside, walking gay cliche, tells the audience the super signal for some reason routes the machines to their super secret HQ, which also makes no sense. The terminators, for some reason, send one naked governor to kill hot man Connor after conveniently explaining their plan to him Austin Powers style. This was completely bull****, girlfriends. The heart transplant at the end made my nuts boil. This isn't spoiling it, this is saving you from having to see it.

[Asher]

I am not planning on seeing it.

Star Trek was great.

[Wiglaf]

It was good except Spock acted like he was on menopause the whole time.

[Riesstiu IV]

So he acted like you then?

[Wiglaf]

You can't be on menopause if you're under 30 you idiot. Also Asher is kind of right even though he is gay. The terminator was so much better a character than Bale.

[OzzyKP]

Why wouldn't John Connor be the main character? That doesn't make any sense.

[Wiglaf]

Yes, nothing that isn't 100% expected makes any sense.